The fruit body is a large stocky buff- or ochre-coloured mushroom sometimes with shades of orange or pink on the stalk or cap. The cap is convex and rounded when young and opening out and flattening to flat-convex or flat.[2] Reaching up to 30 cm (12 in) in diameter,[4] the cap is often covered with small thin flat scales that are slightly paler than the cap colour.[2] The thin crowded gills are free, and cream or buff, becoming darker as the mushroom ages.[5] The spore print is white. The thick stalk has a double ring which helps identify it.[2] The main upper ring is attached high up on the stalk just underneath the gills.[6] It is membranous and can break off. The second ring is smaller and thicker. The solid stalk is up to 15 cm (6 in) high and 2 cm (0.8 in) wide. The large bulbous base is shaped like an inverted cone,[2] and up to 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter.[4]

Under a microscope, the spores are oval-shaped and measure 9.3–10.8 by 5.4–7.4 μm.[2]

A field study showed that A. ochrophylla fruit bodies of identical genetic profile were found up covering areas of up 60 m (200 ft) diameter, suggesting a single genet was responsible, and that hence these units could be up to 60 m (200 ft) diameter in undisturbed eucalypt forest.[9]

Its smell would usually preclude people trying to consume it, and its edibility is unknown. At Wedderburn south of Sydney, a Lao family picked and consumed this species along with Amanita volvarielloides. One member suffered poisoning with hepatotoxic effects similar to those of deadly amanitas; however, the latter fungus was the likely agent.[10]